The Declaration of Independence & Constitution celebrated separation of powers—a structural bill of rights to prevent executive branch tyranny. The crown jewel was the exclusive monopoly of the war power by Congress, assigning the war power to Congress, not the president, to prevent chronic wars from obliterating liberty and the march of the mind
Opposing the steps needed to make negotiations succeed is an argument for returning to the very strategy that produced war.
It’s taboo to talk about exactly what happened on that day, and it’s taboo to talk about how Israel’s abuses provoked the attack. How many of the 1,195 people killed were actually killed by Israeli forces? Did Israel deliberately leave its people undefended? We don’t know, and we’re not allowed to know.
With Religious Zionism dominating key institutions of the Israeli state, police and courts fail to hold its adherents accountable for attacks on Christian communities
We are watching children, children who are just like our own, try to survive a genocide, and yet there is no accountability. No one demanding and ensuring that this nightmare is put to a stop, Israeli forces are killing Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank at the highest rate since 1967
Israeli soldiers “prevented us from even passing near [our own land], then they bulldozed it all… They left us with nothing to live on.” Israeli forces have bulldozed hundreds of olive trees in the West Bank.
“By unilaterally declaring the power to seize Palestinian land, property, and buildings for their own use without consent, compensation or readdress, the Board of Peace is taking a page out of Israel’s repressive playbook, said one analyst. The prospective immunity resolution titled “RESOLUTION NO 2026/3” has not been shared with the Palestinian cohort, an official said
Instead of “voluntary migration,” call it “plan for free movement” ■ Chipping away at the Palestinian character of Hebron ■ Israel wants to teach how to be Jewish ■ More
The new Lebanese-Israeli framework is described as a first step. But beneath this diplomatic language lies a familiar problem: Israel keeps the power to decide when it feels secure enough to withdraw, the US presents itself as mediator while acting as Israel’s strategic protector, and Lebanon is asked to implement security obligations that its own political and social reality may not allow.
Israeli soldiers and settlers commit daily acts of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory with near-total impunity. By contrast, Palestinians are being arrested en masse, deprived of critical safeguards in detention, and subjected to torture and ill-treatment. In addition, recently introduced legislation will make it easier for Israeli courts to issue death sentences for Palestinians.